Accused stabber’s mother relieved daughter released

Her daughter, 29-year-old Lucina Morris, had just been released from custody on a $5,000 recognizance in the weekend stabbing case in Indian Brook.

“It’s a big relief that she was released,” Shirley Morris said after the court proceedings that saw her daughter, who had been in custody since she turned herself into Eskasoni RCMP on Monday evening, freed on bail. Lucy, as her mother calls her, has been ordered to stay with her parents, James and Shirley, at their Eskasoni home until she returns to provincial court in Shubenacadie on July 21.

Morris is charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault in the incident that police responded to at 1 a.m., on Sunday.

Tim Nevin, 33, Lucina Morris’s common-law husband, was removed from the Eagles Nest Road home in Indian Brook and transported to the Colchester East Hants Health Centre in Truro with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. Nevin has reportedly since returned home.

Police had been searching for Lucina Morris and two children, aged four and one, on Monday before she turned herself in. The children were located in Eskasoni on Monday and taken into care by the Mi’kmaw Family and Children’s Services.

In court Thursday, Lucina Morris was told that she must reside with her parents 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with the exception of medical and court appointments. She is not allowed to take drugs or alcohol, must turn in her passport to the police and she must report to the Indian Brook RCMP three times each week.

Morris is not to have any contact with Nevin.

Morris, with her hair tied up in a neat pony tail and wearing a zippered sweatshirt, looked somewhat overwhelmed when she stood up in court.

“It’s a sad day for both families,” her mother said. “Our main concern is the children. We went through a lot in the last few days, a lot of trauma. There is a lot of healing that needs to be done.”